Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1887-03-26
CURIOUS CONVERSATIONS
The crematory is the burn from whence
no traveller returns.


struck with it some time ago,
Seven hundred and fifty thousand dol.
lars is already pledged tow rd building
a first>class hotel in Philadelphia.
A burglar was captured in house in
New Haven, Conn, the other night. He
had fallen fast asleep In a rocking chair.
Five members of the Methodist Epis-
copal Church, Seabright, N. j., have
been expelled for dancing on q steam
boat and at q social entertainment.
A Western man died on his wedding
day, before the ceremony could be per
formed, and his friends very generally
agreed tnat it was very narrow es-
cape.
The Marquis of Butte has given s., 900
for the establishment of National In
stitute for Wales, at Cardiff, for the adj
vancement of literature, art and science,
as jubilee memorial. The scheme will
cost in it's entirety $S5, 900.
James T, Fitzgerald, of Bennington.
VT, has been found guilty of 1876 offenses
against the prohibitory law aud fined
81, $50, with costs, with the alternative,
if not paid, of three days hard labor in
the House of Correction for each dollar.
The Latin names of some Roman
Catholic dioceses sound queer. Santa Fe
is S. Fidel; Little Rock is Petriculanus; :
Springfield is Campi Fonts; Wheeling
is Velingensis; Green Bay is Sinus Nirld-
sand Grand Rapids is Flumins Rapid.
Christine Nillson, because of her mar
riage to Count, it is said will retire
from the stage. Either Christine has
some money laid by for rainy day or
her husband is success as a count.
That is he is of some account.
A reporter on a Milwaukee paper,
whose wife eloped with lake captain,
Is blamed, i, IS reported, from keeping
the item from the other journals until
he could make "scoop" of it. Some
men are too mean to live, but it is proba-
bly, the first time she ever ran away and
it ratified him
At recent masquerade in Portland,
Ore, number of the maskers, who had
attracted attention from their dress and
antics, which was those of the Salvation
army, formed circle in the middle of
the floor, and then tall, atheletic young
man, who personated Satan, bursts into
the ring and tried to break it up. The
Army rose as a man, throttled Satan,
threw him down and wiped the floor
with him.
According to the Memphis Avalanche,
Memphis should congratulate itself be-
cause it sis not the only city in the Uni
tod States whose residents arc forced to
clasp their nostrils between the thumb
and forefnger OF one hand while they
raise a glass of water from the pump to
their lips with the other There is no
particular reason why lots of other cities
should not be just as happy as Mem
phis.
There are 400 cases of measles in
Pottstown, q. The disease first broke
out six weeks ago, about the time the
Reading epidemic began, and it has
spread with increasing violence since.
The schools have been largely depleted
of pupils. As many as five to eight
members of a family are, in some in
stances, affected.
An Italian went to Bellevue Hospital,
New York, on Sunday, to look after the
body of his cousin, who had died there.
Having gone during his search into the
alcoholic ward, the keepers thought he
was n patient. strapped and handcutled
him and put him in a cell. The mistake
was afterward discovered, and the man,
who could not speak any English, was
released.
A A. D,,Yn ~ ha ho1
been missing for some time, and was
supposed to have committed suicide, has
returned to his home, where he give
the assurance that he had been in the
woods ever since his disappearance, and
that he was brought out of his delirium
by falling from tree INTO which he had
climed to get out of reach of imaginary
pursuers.
Three very well dressed young men of
st. Louis tried to get up Irritation with
two nretty girls in public hall, and
finally one of the men spoke to one of
the girls and asked her to talk to him
and smile for five minutes in order that
he might win S. bet that he could hold
a conversation with her. She immedi-
ately had the young man and his two
companions arrested, and after night
in the lookup one was fined So, one $50
and one $50.
The Richmond 'Religious Herald"
thinks that good many preachers
might profit by the criticism of an old
deacon, who when asked how certain
candidate pleased him, answered: mot
at all. There is but one thing against
him, but that is enough. He thinks too
well of himself. His whole bearing
seems to say, Here's man that can do
it." "Well can't he do it2" asked an :
other brother. 'Yes, he can," re lied
the deacon: "but will never vote for
man to be my pas or who has so good
an opinion of himself.
The orthodox Hindoo of Bombay at
the present time believes in incarnations
of the Deity, and of male and female
gods as symbols of certain powers, and
many of the most wealthy Hinioos have
erected temples in order to satisfy their
spiritual longings,, dedicating them to
special deities; as general rule, to those
worshiped by their ancestors. All His
docs have one thing in common, that is,
a belief in the:expression, "What was
good enough for my father is good
enough for me-"
When Adolphus Tanner, well-to.do
Baltimorean, attempted to commit sui.
eide because he thought his wife had
deserted him, he performed the job
with scrupulous eXactness. Closing up
every crevice in the room, he took off
all the gas fixtures, so that the outflow